Her reason for keeping him out of the loop is not for convenience sake but for revenge. “When I asked my coworkers for advice, they commiserated: ‘All men are like that,’ and ‘Mine doesn’t even notice when I get my hair cut.’” “Only my husband seemed not to notice anything, even though my chest felt so solid it was as though there was a metal plate under my skin,” the narrator complains. While everyone else in her life takes notice of her new muscles, her husband never mentions it. “You’ll definitely need your family members to be on board.” But despite this advice, she does not to clue her husband in to her new hobby. Steel yourself,” her trainer tells her at the outset of her endeavor. “You need to be aware that public acceptance for bodybuilding is extremely limited. In the titular and opening story, a woman decides to start bodybuilding after watching a boxing match. Her work stands out for its ability to emphasize the power of paying attention and, conversely, the problems that arise in that attention’s absence. The Lonesome Bodybuilder, a new collection, translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda, pulls together a selection of Motoya’s work written between 20.

Around this time, she also began publishing fiction. Six years later, she became the youngest playwright to win the Tsuruya Nanboku Memorial Award.

In 2000, at twenty-one-years-old, she founded her own theater company in Tokyo. At the beginning of the millennium, Japanese writer Yukiko Motoya emerged as something of a prodigy.

The lonesome body builder